Introducing Persian Architecture

Achaemenid achievement arch base beauty blue brick bridge building built called capital caravanserais carried carved central century chamber color columns complex concentration construction continued court covered created crowned culture Darius decorative deep dome earliest early elements empire especially example existed expression façade faced feet high forms four fourteenth garden gold ground hall houses huge hundred important imposing impressive included inscription intense interior Introducing Isfahan Islamic ivan known later LIBRARIES light madrassa Masjid-i-Jami mausoleum MICHIGAN minarets monuments mosaic faience mosque mountain Natanz ornament outer palace panels Parthian patterns perfect period Persepolis Persian architecture portal probably provides remains rich rival royal ruins sacred sanctuary Sasanian scale Seljuk Shah shrine side simple square squinch standing stone structure stucco style Susa symbolic temple thousand tiles tion tomb towers tradition types UNIVERSITY vault walls whole wide